Making of Arc Search, and finding your AI product strategy with Josh Miller
Hallway Chat · Fraser Kelton, Nabeel Hyatt, Josh Miller
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Show Notes
Josh Miller, Founder and CEO of The Browser Co, joins this week. We loved the experience with Arc Search, a new AI-enabled mobile search experience, we decided to talk to Josh directly about how it all came together.
Topics
* How Arc Search came to be spawned out of basically a side project
* The core value of "we don't know"
* How the key AI feature 'Browse for Me' was not the initial concept, but came to be added last minute
* Josh's initial skepticism about AI, up until just a few months ago, and what flipped him
* Three strategies for AI integration
* The perils of leading with consumer hooks, how that derailed Browser Co, and focusing on solving problems
* Should cost be a key consideration when developing AI?
Hope you enjoy us mixing it up this week by talking with someone wrestling with building in the space. Drop us a line on twitter at @nabeel and @fraser with what you want to hear more (or less) of.
- (00:00) - Intro
- (01:02) - Welcome Josh, CEO of The Browser Company
- (02:51) - The origin of Arc Search
- (05:12) - Browse For Me
- (06:55) - Overview of Arc Search
- (16:51) - Thinking about competition
- (25:08) - User problems over elegant hooks
- (29:25) - Three strategies for AI integration
- (34:51) - The importance of prototyping
- (40:28) - The future of desktop search
- (46:01) - Thinking about costs when building with AI